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Storm Warning *** (1951, Ginger Rogers, Ronald Reagan, Doris Day, Steve Cochran) – Classic Movie Review 7,302

Ginger Rogers stands up to the Ku Klux Klan as only she can, with Doris Day as her sister, in the 1951 film noir Storm Warning. Ronald Reagan plays a do-gooding District Attorney. Director Stuart […]

Jul, 17

Living It Up *** (1954, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Janet Leigh, Edward Arnold, Fred Clark, Sheree North, Sig Ruman) – Classic Movie Review 7267

Director Norman Taurog’s free-wheeling 1954 Technicolor carefree screwball comedy Living It Up stars Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Janet Leigh, Edward Arnold as The Mayor, Fred Clark, Sheree North and Sig Ruman. Lewis plays Homer Flagg, […]

Jul, 08

The Secret 6 *** (1931, Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone, Johnny Mack Brown, Jean Harlow, Clark Gable, Ralph Bellamy) – Classic Movie Review 7198

A classy roster of actors embellishes director George W Hill’s 1931 gangster crime thriller The Secret 6, which tells a traditional tale of gangland warfare, bribery and corruption, and the rival crusading reporters (Johnny Mack […]

Jun, 20

The Bedford Incident ***** (1965, Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier, James MacArthur, Eric Portman, Wally Cox, Martin Balsam) – Classic Movie Review 7,078

The 1965 Cold War thriller film The Bedford Incident stars Richard Widmark as skipper of the American guided missile destroyer USS Bedford, who obsessively hunts a Soviet submarine. Producer-director James B Harris’s 1965 British-American Cold War thriller film The […]

May, 21

Switching Channels **** (1988, Kathleen Turner, Burt Reynolds, Christopher Reeve, Ned Beatty, Henry Gibson) – Classic Movie Review 6932

Switching Channels (1988) is none other than Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur’s 1928 Broadway newspapers comedy melodrama The Front Page spruced up for the satellite era, with the newspaper reporters of the original play updated to television reporters […]

Apr, 16

Homecoming ** (1948, Clark Gable, Lana Turner, Anne Baxter, John Hodiak, Ray Collins, Gladys Cooper, Cameron Mitchell) – Classic Movie Review 6,701

The watchable 1948 wartime romantic film Homecoming finds ideally paired MGM superstars Clark Gable and Lana Turner in unusual roles for them in their third movie together. Director Mervyn LeRoy’s trite 1948 wartime romance film […]

Feb, 17

Somewhere I’ll Find You ** (1942, Clark Gable, Lana Turner, Robert Sterling, Patricia Dane, Reginald Owen, Lee Patrick, Charles Dingle) – Classic Movie Review 6700

Director Wesley Ruggles 1942 wartime romantic drama is the second of the four popular pairings of Clark Gable and Lana Turner at MGM, following Honky Tonk (1941) and followed by Homecoming (1948) and Betrayed (1954). Gable and Robert […]

Feb, 16

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